Timur Kuran

Professor at Duke University. Studies economic & political development, Middle East, Islam.
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Article: “The Unthinkable and the Unthought”

October 1, 19931990-1999, Preference falsification, Social mechanismsTimur Kuran

“The Unthinkable and the Unthought,” Rationality and Society, 5 (October 1993): 473-505.

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Contact

Timur Kuran

Professor of Economics & Political Science
Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies
Duke University

213 Social Sciences
Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 660-1872
Email: t.kuran@duke.edu
Twitter: @timurkuran

Recent Posts

  • Interview: İyi tasarlanmış bir koleksiyon, tarih kitaplarında bulamayacağınız bilgiler sunar.” (with Nadirkitap)
  • Working Paper: “The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Personal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly”
  • Working Paper: “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839”
  • Podcast: “A Conspiracy of Silence,” Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedankar
  • Article: “Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation”
  • Book: Türkiye’de Postanın Mikrotarihi, 1920-2015 / Microhistory of the Turkish Posts
  • Podcast: “The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception,” The Portal with Eric Weinstein
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